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Released as part of Hear Music's ongoing Artist's Choice series, where major artists pick "the music that matters to them," the 2003 compilation Artist's Choice: Rolling Stones finds Mick, Keith, Charlie, and Ronnie running through 16 recordings of their favorite songs by other artists. It should come as no surprise that blues, R&B, soul, old-time rock & roll and reggae with a hint of funk form the core of the collection, since that's what's at the root of the Stones. In fact, the only left-field choices are Mick's pick of Sade's "By Your Side" and Ronnie hauling out the Beach Boys' "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" at the end of the record. But even if this is a bit predictable, it is a good selection of songs -- hard to go wrong with Robert Johnson, Otis Redding, Eddie Cochran, Andre Williams, Sly & the Family Stone, the Isley Brothers, and (of course) Muddy Waters, after all -- and the track-by-track commentary by the Stones is entertaining and lively (no more so when Keith assumes the still-alive Andre Williams is dead and, if he's not, "he's probably doing time"). You could do far worse with your money.
CONDITION: NEW
TRACK LISTING
1 –James Brown Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part 1)
2 –Al Green I'm Still In Love With You
3 –Otis Redding I Can't Turn You Loose
4 –Muddy Waters Still A Fool
5 –Robert Johnson 32-20 Blues
6 –Eddie Cochran C'Mon Everybody
7 –Little Richard The Girl Can't Help It
8 –Earl Bostic Flamingo
9 –Andre Williams (2) Jail Bait
10 –Sly & The Family Stone If You Want Me To Stay
11 –The Itals In A Dis A Time
12 –Sade By Your Side
13 –Aretha Franklin Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
14 –The Isley Brothers This Old Heart Of Mine Is Weak
15 –Muddy Waters You Shook Me
16 –The Beach Boys I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
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